{"id":24214,"date":"2012-07-17T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2012-07-17T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:50:23","slug":"hanmi-donates-3k-to-manta-ray-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-donates-3k-to-manta-ray-band\/","title":{"rendered":"HANMI donates $3K to Manta Ray Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" alt=\"Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands chair Nick Nishikawa, right, presents a $3,000 check to Will Dewitt of the Saipan Southern High School Manta Ray Band on July 16, 2012, at Hyatt Regency Saipan.  The band is raising funds to perform at the 2012 Olympics in London. (HANMI)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns120433.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $3,000 to the Saipan Southern High School Manta Ray Band yesterday in support of the band&#8217;s fundraising efforts to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.<\/p>\n<p>The donation, presented by HANMI chair Nick Nishikawa to band instructor Will Dewitt, was made on behalf of HANMI&#8217;s 12 member hotels and other allied members supporting the hotel industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Manta Ray Band is an excellent school program for the students and has been a wonderful ambassador for the Northern Mariana Islands in its regional and international performances,\u201d said Nishikawa. \u201cWe are very proud of the band&#8217;s hard work and are pleased to have them represent our islands at the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band is expected to depart for London next week. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $3,000 to the Saipan Southern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[301,386,524,121],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-hanmi","tag-london","tag-nick-nishikawa","tag-northern-mariana-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}